Linear measure.



I. VA. WESSON.

LINEAR MEASURE.

APPLlGATIoN rILED Amma, 1911A 1,079,457, Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

ISAAC A. WESSON, 0F WINGO, KENTUCKY.

LINEAR MEASURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

Application filed April 8, 1911. Serial N o. 619,919.

To all whom t may concern vBe it known that I, Isaac A. WEssoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wingo, in the county of Graves and State of Kentucky, have inventedcertain new and .f useful Improvements in Linear Measures, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain im rovements 1n linear measures and has or lts particular object to provlde a measure that will be useful to persons who trade in live stock. y

Another object is to provide a measure that is flexible whereby circular bodies can be measured and at the same time capable of resuming'A its normal lposition lin an approximately Ystraight line. 1

A further object is to provide such a device that is especially adapted to be carried in vehicles without folding.V

These objects and others-:hereinafter set forth are attained by the means illustrated in theaccompanying drawing,'in which:

Figure 1 is a view of my improved device, showin in full lines its normal osition and 'inv otted lines how it can be ent, andv Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of a fshort section thereof intermediate its ends.

Similar reference numerals in the'several views ofthe drawing indicate llke parts.

The device is preferably formed taperingv from base to tip, provided with a ferrule 1 on its base or butt end, a knot or button 2 at its tipend, and is constructed preferably circular in cross-section and madefrom rawhide, whale-bone or other suitable resilient flexible material or a core of these materials can be formed and covered with other suit- In some instances a core of steel wire upon which isthreadeda series'of disks can be used. r f y Upon the'body of the measure a series of lscales are printed, pasted oreotherwise affixed, said scales extending from one end of the measure to the other. As illustrated, the measure is assumed to be eight feet in length from one end to' the other, gradually tapering from a base or butt which in reality is approximately one-half or three-quarters of an inch in diameter, but in the dra-Wing 1s shown somewhat exaggerated and is divided into eight equal parts, each part representing one foot and the same are indicated byv suitable marks and numerals. The preferred form of placing the numerals upon the measure consists of starting from the knot or button at the tip end as zero, marking thefoot lengths 1, 2, 3, etc., as indicated at A, .toward the butt or base end, which would represent eight feet, Atthe four foot mark, which is midway of the measure, is

commenced another. scale B, extending toward the t1p end, divided into four inch divisions, or hands, and starting at the base or butt end as zero and extending to said four foot mark, the foot divisions are further indicated by another set of numerals C from one to four,'said divisions at this buttend of the measure being subdivided into inches. From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the measure is constructedto simulate a whip, of the character that. is usually carried ,in vehicles in whip-sockets, and in which the above described measure can also be carried, and as itl is constructed with materials from .which whips are made, it can also be used as such. Furthermore by forming the measure circular in cross-section and of decreasing diameters toward one end, the material of which it is constructed iS capable of sustaining it in an approximately Straight line whereby it can be carried in a whip-socket, also., will allow of its bending in any direction and providing a relatively rigid base or butt which is.- adapted for measuring short lengths, and a light ilexible end thatcan be used to measure circular bodies. Measures of the usual construction of this length, viz., lthose that are rigid enough to retain a straight line and formed of equal diameters throughout are heavy and unwieldy, and cannot be conveniently 'used by grasping one end thereof, while with the construction described no inconvenience whatever 1s had.

In Iiieasuring v-the heights of animals the' measure 1s grasped at or near the small end,

end of the measure therearound. In other.

Words, the scale advancing from the tip end is applicable to round bodies, andthe scale running in the opposite direction to straight lengths.

Having thus fullydescribed the invention, what is claimed is:

roo j Atapering resilient measure circular incross-section provided with indices through- 'out its length, footindicating characters adjacent to seid indices .progressiveiy increzis-l ing numerically frorn thesmali to the large end of said measure, footv indicating charac ters adjacent to the same indices increasing numerically from 'che large end to an intermediate portion of said measure, `the scale at the larger cnd'of said Incas re being enh-7 divided with indices representing inches., the scale upon an intermediate lportion being subdivided vriih indices re` a., l, hand measures, and 'nan-: indiefit .r..g cia., aciers adgaeen sam hand indices and' rognessively increasing numericaiy from ie erger por tion of said measure.

In esinmny a 'hereof )i my signe-iure in presence of two Winesses.

ISAAC A. VVESSN.

f J. H. ennrsom A. O. Gewinn 

